I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thyservant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thyservant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

Let thyservant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thyservant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.

Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thyservant; for thou hast brought thyservant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thyservant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thyservant be blessed for ever.

O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thyservant, and to the prayer of thyservants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thyservant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.